Slot Swing – Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots
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| The Slot Swing: The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros |
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Top golfing instructor Jim McLean shares the secret to a better swing and a better game It's what every great golfer knows and every struggling player wants to know: how to find "the slot," the perfect channel through which the shaft and club head can meet the ball on the downswing for a more powerful, accurate, and consistent swing. Great ball-strikers like Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, and Jack Nicklaus were slot swingers. Today, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Jim Furyk provide dramatic examples. Now leading golf instructor Jim McLean shows you how to find the slot to take your game to the next level. With step-by-step instructions and more than eighty illustrations by leading golf illustrator Phil Franke, The Slot Swing makes it easy. - Shows you how to find the perfect channel for a more powerful and consistent swing
- Shares McLean's secrets from more than twenty years as a top instructor to the greatest pros
- Features stunning two-color art by Phil Franke and a full-color foldout showing how the dramatically different swings of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Bruce Lietzke and Jim Furyk all end up in the slot
- Written by the author of the classic book The 8-Step Swing, named one of the 20th Century's top 15 golf instructionals by Sports Illustrated
This book helps you get out of a golfing rut, get locked in to your slot, and find the sweet spot in your game. |
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- ISBN13: 9780470444993
- Condition: New
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| Review Date: September 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sanin Saracevic, Atlanta, GA USA |
I am a self-taught 11-handicap (20+ rounds in the 80s) after starting to play 11 months ago. During the never-ending process of trying to "figure" out the golf swing I stumbled upon many things that "worked" and many, many more that did not. This book discusses and explains many of the things I remember "discovering" but could not explain, recall properly, or repeat.
Other books (and I read at least a dozen) mostly focus on ONE PRESCRIBED way of doing things, a set of hard rules, and a plethora of tips. Unlike them, "The Slot Swing" explains a very simple swing FRAMEWORK within which all great swings can be identified. One is free to "customize" and "personalize" how to do things as long as he stays within the described parameters. Very liberating and super-intuitive.
I personally never liked how specific swing rules and tips were -- swinging that way lacked "freedom of expression" and just could not account for so much variability of good swings on the Tour. If you agree with this statement or at least wonder about how one tip works one day but it summarily disappears the next this book is for you.
It might be better to learn and understand this framework instead of worrying about superficial aspects of the swing that work for someone but may completely wreck YOUR swing. Learn and then apply it in your unique way. It will work, I am absolutely convinced.
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I finally found my Slot with this Book!
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| Review Date: October 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Devan T. Bonebrake, |
| I am a five handicap and have read an insurmountable amount of golf instruction books. However, I have never read a book that freed my mind up more than the Slot Swing. I have always though that the backswing was so important and that you had to swing it back on the same plane that it comes down on. The vivid pictures and great imagery in this book really helped me understand that all great players had their own way of finding the slot. I thought a lot about this and realized that I had always played my best when I felt like I took the club a little up going back and then dropped it back under coming down, but I always went away from it because I thought it was wrong. Jim McLean provides incredible evidence that there are three ways to find the slot and that there is no one perfect backswing!!!! I am so glad I ordered this book it has had a huge impact on my golf game. I highly recommend it. |
Finally the truth gets revealed!
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| Review Date: October 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mark Radzichowsky, Montreal, Canada |
Over the years I`ve purchased my share of golf instruction books sold on Amazon but never considered writing a review. This book is different because it holds the secret to the pro swing and it's pictured right on the front cover.
Mclean explains by comparative analysis that the only thing a golfer needs to accomplish on the downswing is to get on a shallow downswing plane. Jim refers to this movement as getting into the "slot".
Jim is without question the best golf analyst of the modern era. In many ways this book is an update to Ben Hogan's original ideas regarding the Plain of the glass concept however Jim goes all the way demonstrating the many more variables that Mr. Hogan didn't consider. In defense of Mr. Hogan he didn't have access to high speed film.
I warn you, once you get the feeling of the slot swing you might want to kill yourself for wasting all those rounds of golf you played hitting over the top.
If you're ready for this material, you won't need any other book. In my opinion this is the most valuable contribution to improving the full golf swing that has ever come along!
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WOW! Great book. Super Instruction!
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| Review Date: October 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Green, Chicago, IL |
I am an avid golfer and I try to keep up on my knowledge of the game. I carry a scratch handicap so I know good advice when I see it. This whole book is packed with phenomenal information, all of which has been researched and proven by Jim McLean and his staff. To supplement this information, there are many beautiful illustrations to help the reader really understand what it is that sets pros and amateurs apart.
This book is a must read for anyone who is serious about the game of golf! |
Great Book!
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| Review Date: September 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: mmgolf, |
| So good! The pictures are awesome, they are all drawings. The slot swing clears up so many things and was interesting from start to finish. I loved It! |
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